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Murdering labour union members: Acceptable expression of liberal policy.
Nationalising copper mines: The penultimate checkpoint on the path to a totalitarian nightmare.
The wonders of the far-right mind...
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
Pinochet basically blew out the brains of all he could find who had a social conscience. I had known about Kissenger and Friedman. Guess Hayek makes it an unholy trinity. Makes one wish there were a Hell in which they could rot. Instead, all three get Nobel Prizes, Kissenger the Peace Prize. No evil deed goes unrewarded. "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
It might not be obvious, but there's an anthropological model where this kind of thing makes perfect sense. It's not moral sense, and it's not left-wing moral sense, but it is completely self-consistent.
It's also why the right is so dangerous. If you take away democracy - in the ragged sense of popular influence on power - and replace it with liberalism in the sense that people like Hayek meant it, you cannot help but get fascism and violence.
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